commercials I (we) hate

[oldtimeradio]

"Who ya gonna call?" in Phoenix...used by the Power dealers.

Another bad jingle, for a PSA about eating properly. "Salad on Saturday" and whatever on the rest of the week. It's a million times worse than Kars for Kids!

 

[comet]

Only every single Tim Conway Jr. commercial ever recorded. No escaping either - up/down the dial no matter where you land there he is, like stink on shit. Just a matter of time before he drops a spot for his bookie.

 

[Thomps2525]

I don't mind hearing Conway's voice but I hate that every phrase and sentence is spliced together to eliminate the natural pauses between sentences. The reason this execrable practice is done is so a few more words can be squeezed in, but it doesn't matter to me---I turn off those commercials as soon as I hear them begin.

 

[F.M.Hertz]

Conway does a great job with his live spots. If you do listen to them, he ties in what he's talking about in the talk segements and dovetails that into the spot. Plus, he's loyal to his sponsors, and isn't afraid to drop a plug on them.

But, I digress.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the "Heritage For the Blind" spots and that horrible jingle. Sung by two guys from Brooklyn who don't know how to sing.

By the way, Conway did a whole segement about this abysmal spot about a month ago, and it was very funny.

 

[westfield60]

Only every single Tim Conway Jr. commercial ever recorded. No escaping either - up/down the dial no matter where you land there he is, like stink on shit. Just a matter of time before he drops a spot for his bookie.

There are so many irritating commercials on radio, but I do agree that Tim Conway Jr's voice makes me want to crash my car into a wall. I truly believe he was born without a brain stem at the way he yells everything.

Additionally there is a commercial currently playing on KFI from the Kevin James for Mayor camp. It has a melancholic flute playing in the background and the voice over is a monotone voice that I doubt if anyone is awake by the time that 30 second spot is over. You would think he was running for office in the 1650's. Honestly who green lights some of this stuff?

 

[comet]

There are so many irritating commercials on radio, but I do agree that Tim Conway Jr's voice makes me want to crash my car into a wall. I truly believe he was born without a brain stem at the way he yells everything.

Shout out to Mystie Heckler, who night after night is tasked with producing a missing brain stem. #coldcase

 

[nmoore6676]

Only every single Tim Conway Jr. commercial ever recorded. No escaping either - up/down the dial no matter where you land there he is, like stink on shit. Just a matter of time before he drops a spot for his bookie.

There are so many irritating commercials on radio, but I do agree that Tim Conway Jr's voice makes me want to crash my car into a wall. I truly believe he was born without a brain stem at the way he yells everything.

Additionally there is a commercial currently playing on KFI from the Kevin James for Mayor camp. It has a melancholic flute playing in the background and the voice over is a monotone voice that I doubt if anyone is awake by the time that 30 second spot is over. You would think he was running for office in the 1650's. Honestly who green lights some of this stuff?

Listening on line this morning to Gary Hoffman on KFI I heard the double whammy. Tim Conway Jr. for some hip replacement deal followed by Bill Handel for some kind of a college. It used to be that the only irritating voices in commercials were sponsors who insisted on doing their own spots. But in general the day of mellow voiced announcers with impeccable diction is another thing relegated to our past.

 

[wadio]

Any commercial, whether on radio or television, that uses an old rock song or a parody of a rock song, I immediately turn off. Almost every song I've ever liked is eternally ruined for me as soon as I hear it being used to advertise shoes, clothes, Viagra, dust mops, diet pills, laxatives, pet food, restaurants or any other product. Barry Manilow got his start as a writer/composer of commercial jingles, including "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there," "I am stuck on Band-Aid 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me" and "You deserve a break today at McDonald's." That was more than 40 years ago.I can't remember the last time I heard an original jingle in a commercial!

Couldn't agree more! Using hit songs is laziness masquerading as creativity. Any ad agency that proposes such a campaign should be fired immediately by the client!

In NY, WABC airs a weekly brokered program called, "Living Better with Laura Smith," where Ms. Smith "interviews" peddlers of various products. The theme song is the Beatles' "Getting Better All The Time." Then there are 60-second spots promoting one of the peddlers. These run ROS and also open and close with the Beatles song. Besides possibly violating copyright, (I doubt that WABC, Laura Smith or "My Pillow" is paying a synchronization fee for commercial use of this piece) it's damned annoying.

It's a good thing most local advertisers adhere to copyright rules or we'd hear hit song after hit song behind their commercials!

 

[Dave Andrews]

Let us not forget the late great KABC Program Director Wally Sherwin with his Adee Do spots.

Adee Plumbing & Heating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10tTozjxmA

Hey! I like the Adee-Do commercials.

Me too. Reminds me of Junior high, we had a muscular P.E. Coach, A.D. Williams. Corporal punishment was still allowed back then, so our joke was, "Who gives the hardest swats in P.E.? A.D. DO!!"

 

[Thomps2525]

At the same time that those fershlugginer "Adee Do" commercials were so prevalent on television, there were also a lot of commerecials for Jack Stephan Plumbing. The announcer would always get his name wrong, calling him "Stephanski" or "Stephanino" or some other name, and then Jack would hold up a hand and declare, "Stephan---Jack Stephan!"

http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/01/18/jack-stephan/